problem with uploading file in client-server environment (WDK)

Hi,

I have a problem with uploading files with a custom made interface and was wondering if anyone could help me out.

My interface comprises of a file browser and a submit button which will upload the file selected at local to the content server upon clicked. When I host my app at local, it works fine. However, when I deploy the app to a remote server, the file upload does not behave as it should.

When the user browse for a file, he is selecting the file from his local machine. However when he uploads the file to the content server, documentum actually looks for that file in the web server which may not contain that file. As a result, a file not found exception is always thrown.

Anyone has encountered the same problem before and managed to resolve it?

Thanks in advance

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tarh33l

Can you post whatever WDK or DFC code you've written for this? Also, can you be a little more clear? Is this a custom WDK component you've written or is this a custom web application (if this is the case, you're not using WDK)?

Terence

gcampos

I had this problem, and solved it this way:

use a dmf:filebrowse to choose the files, with the attribute fileupload="true", this way it will send the file to the app server, not only the file path.
create a method to run in the behavior class when the file is selected and put on the filebrowse tag, i.e: onselect="onSelectFile"
in this method, get all you need about the file (name, extension, dctm format, etc.)
in your behavior (component) class, in the onCommitChanges method, get the filebrowse control and use the method getFile() it will return the java.io.File to you
do a checkout/checkin or use a setfile/save in the document you want, and pass the File.getAbsolutePath() as argument, cause the file was already uploaded to the app server, thanks to the fileupload="true" attribute.

Regards,

Gustavo